Announcing our July Community Survey

Our bi-monthly survey is open for July!

Back when this project was kicked off over one year ago, I wanted to use this newsletter as a helpful tool to not only help have our residents understand their community, but also to receive feedback and get ideas on how residents perceived where the community was headed.

In order to achieve that goal, the decision was made to release a small survey that would ask residents their thoughts and feelings every two months. Every month seemed excessive, yet, once a quarter didn’t seem quite frequent enough. The idea was to help create a picture of the sentiment in the community and measure that sentiment over time.

Our last survey was open in May, and we were fortunate enough to have 58 individuals respond. That may not sound like a very large number, but it was one of the largest number of participants this survey has had up to this point; our largest pool was 64 participants from a survey released earlier this year. You can read about our last survey here:

So today, I'm reaching out to you, our amazing and dependable readers, and asking you to take a mere three minutes to fill out this survey. Let us know what you think about the place you call home.

In a future edition of the Civic Capacity newsletter in August, I'll take the time to provide thoughtful and careful analysis of the answers this publication received and, more importantly, review the trends that the data is showing.

This isn't just an opportunity for your thoughts and feelings to be heard—although it definitely is that. It's also a chance to gain a better understanding of how your community is perceived by your friends and neighbors, and for you to have a say in that process.

Also, it doesn’t matter what your hometown is; we will take responses from all communities! However, we will only publish results if we have enough responses from a community to warrant publishing the results.

You can access the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PF6SPPN

Thanks for your time and your participation! It is greatly appreciated!

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